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The
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DVD - Our Price: $16.95 |
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Region 1 DVD - United States,
Canada, and US Territories. |
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Illustra Media |
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Length: 60 minutes |
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Product # VID340 |
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Shipping weight: 5.3
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"The most habitable places in the
universe also offer the best opportunity for scientific discovery. I
believe this implies purpose." |
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- Guillermo Gonzalez
(astrobiologist) |
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Many
scientists and philosophers have claimed that Earth is an ordinary
speck of dust adrift, without purpose or significance, in a vast
cosmic sea. Yet current astronomical evidence seems to suggest just
the opposite. |
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We now know that a rare and finely
tuned array of factors makes Earth
suitable for complex life. We depend
on our planet's oxygen-rich
atmosphere, its large moon, its
planetary neighbors, and its precise
location within the solar system and
Milky Way galaxy. But there is more.
The same factors that make a planet
like Earth hospitable to life also
provide the best conditions for
scientific discovery. |
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Through stunning computer animation, interviews
with leading scientists, and spectacular images of earth and the
cosmos, The Privileged Planet explores a
startling connection between our capacity to survive and our ability
to observe and understand the universe. |
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Is this correlation merely a coincidence? Or does
it point to a deeper truth about purpose and intelligent design within
the cosmos? |
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Narrated by John Rys-Davies |
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BONUS DVD
FEATURES |
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• The search for
Earth-like planets |
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• Journey to the
edge of the universe |
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• Questions and
answers |
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• Earth from
space |
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• Reference
library |
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• Chapter
selection |
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More than 40 minutes of extras |
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